Huw Wheldon Movies

A documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, responsible for creating some of the most memorable television and radio music in British popular...

A partly dramatised account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. An episode of the BBC arts series Monitor.

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists...

On a cold February night in 1944, two British frogmen crawled on to a Normandy beach from the freezing sea to take samples of sand for scientific...

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli.

A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration and his influence...

One of the most conceptually original of all the films that Ken Russell made for Monitor, this imagines an expedition of alien archaeologists...

The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk that is incorporated into...

Portrait of Spike Milligan, then part of The Goon Show examining his views on comedy,

Ken Russell directed a short document of German actress (and widow of famed composer Kurt Weill) Lotte Lenya performing many of Weill's best known...

Subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', this is the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics.

An illustration of various mechanical instruments, from the musical-box to 1950s electronica.

Mrs Wilhelmina Sterling shows her vast collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings, pottery and other artefacts at her home in Battersea.

Documentary hosted by the Royal Family, edited from Royal Heritage (1978).